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Date: 12 Jan 2026 19:39:35 GMT
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:39:01 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> Those are diffs of text files. If you applied them to something written
> in a visual programming language the best you’d get is a diff of
> whatever internal representation the language implementation used.

Okay, got it. I was associating 'visual' with Visual C++ etc, not Scratch. 
I didn't know that was used outside of grade school.